'Africa can expect substantial changes from the United States over the next four years,' Rama Yade, director of the Atlantic Council's Africa Center, wrote in a pre-Inauguration analysis.
Among the flood of Executive Orders President Trump signed after being sworn in on January 20, 2025, several that will seriously impact Africa include a pause in all development assistance and U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization, along with abolishing the President’s Advisory Council on Africa n Diaspora Engagement created by President Biden in 2022..
Heading the National Security Council is Mike Waltz, a former Green Beret who served two tours in Afghanistan. He represented Florida's 6th district in the House of Representatives until assuming his position as National Security Adviser on Monday.
The Project 2025 section on Sub-Saharan Africa, which Pham helped write, contains four key recommendations, below, with excerpts of the explanations provided in the plan:- While the United States should always be willing to offer emergency and humanitarian relief, both U.S. and African long-term interests are better served by a free market-based, private growth-focused strategy to Africa's economic challenges.
- maintain a baseline level of contact even with countries with which it has less-than-fruitful relationships to encourage positive developments and be in position to seize unexpected diplomatic opportunities;Dr. Peter Pham at a candlelight dinner for VIP Trump supporters on the night before his Inauguration , celebrating in 2020 the 25th anniversary of his ordination as an Episcopal priest, and greeting DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi during a visit to Kinshasa in 2022.
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